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This UK brewery turns surplus bread from bakeries into award-winning craft beer, reducing food waste while replacing expensive malted barley with a free ingredient.

A $1B flooring company that transformed from environmental villain to pioneer by making carpets from ocean plastic and discarded fishing nets.

An edible coating made from plant materials doubles produce shelf life, reducing food waste across the supply chain without refrigeration or packaging.

Modular shipping container units filled with black soldier fly larvae process organic waste on-site, producing protein for animal feed and fertilizer for farms.

A Dutch denim brand proving you can look good without owning anything—they lease jeans and turn old pairs into new ones in a fully circular model.

A marketplace app connecting consumers with restaurants and stores selling surplus food at a discount, saving 400+ million meals from waste.

A 6th-generation Georgia cattle farm transformed from conventional to regenerative practices, now sequestering more carbon than its cows emit.

An outdoor apparel company that repairs 100,000+ items yearly for free, runs anti-consumption ads, and gave away the entire company to fight climate change.

A search engine that uses 100% of profits to plant trees, having funded 200+ million trees while pioneering steward-ownership to ensure mission permanence.

A modular smartphone designed to last 8+ years with user-replaceable parts, conflict-free minerals, and the industry's first 10/10 iFixit repairability score.

The bakery that supplies Ben & Jerry's brownies pioneered Open Hiring—no interviews, no background checks, no resumes. Just show up ready to work.

Three MIT graduates built East Africa's largest organic waste recycling facility by solving Kenya's sanitation crisis—converting toilet waste into fertilizer and insect protein.

Two Imperial College students invented edible water bubbles from seaweed, replaced 500,000 plastic items at the London Marathon, and won the Earthshot Prize.

A camera and scale under the kitchen bin uses AI to identify wasted food, helping Hilton, IKEA, and Marriott cut food waste in half and save $100M+ annually.

Brazil's largest cosmetics company sources 44 bio-ingredients from the Amazon by partnering with 7,000+ families who earn more from harvesting seeds than from logging.

An IIT engineer returned from the US to disprove three myths: that the poor can't afford solar, can't maintain technology, and social enterprises can't be profitable. 29 years and 2 million installations later, the myths are dead.

A Dutch designer open-sourced DIY recycling machines, sparking 2,000+ community workspaces across 56 countries—proving plastic recycling doesn't require billion-dollar facilities.

An economics professor lent $27 to 42 families during a famine and discovered that the poor were the most creditworthy customers banks had ever ignored. 50 years later: $39 billion disbursed, 10 million borrowers, Nobel Peace Prize.

A college in rural India trains illiterate grandmothers from 96 countries to become solar engineers—using sign language, color-coded circuits, and no textbooks. They return home to electrify their villages.

The vacuum cleaner billionaire quietly built England's largest farming operation and is proving that regenerative agriculture works at industrial scale.